Given Zhao Sheng’s realm, just a glance was enough for him to see that among these Demon Cultivators, there were many with the bloodline of the Zhao Family.
The once-worshiped mbers of the world’s most prestigious family had now fallen to mingling with Evil Demons. It was a disgrace to the face of the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family.
Zhao Sheng, with his ticulous mind, quickly realized that there must have been a significant change of events that he was unaware of.
The intelligence previously sent by Zhao Xuanjing must now be considered outdated and of limited value, useful only as a reference.
Too lazy to question these ants one by one, Zhao Sheng imdiately dispersed dozens of strands of Divine Thought, which shot into everyone’s Purple Mansion Soul Sea like lightning.
In just an instant, everyone’s mories were turned inside out by him.
After reviewing them, Zhao Sheng’s face darkened, and he felt so dissatisfaction in his heart.
Originally, the intelligence had predicted the internal division within the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family.
Now, six hundred years later, just as predicted, in the past two hundred years, the Zhao Family did indeed "splinter apart", splitting into what were called the Central Sect, Southern Sect, Northern Sect, and Overseas Four Branches; countless other sects also branched off.
Among them, the "Central Sect" claid to be the primary line of the Zhao Family and controlled both the Heavenly Pillar Mountain and Divine Dragon Valley -- two great spirit lands -- while secretly managing the mundane Zhao Dynasty, holding the greatest power.
The Southern Sect, centered around Xinglong City, ford an alliance with the Elixir Cauldron Sect and the Beast Taming Sect, with influence spanning the entire Southern Border and the Southern Yan Continent.
The Northern Sect voluntarily moved to the Northern Cold Continent, where it not only annexed Shui Mu Palace, becoming the new sovereign of the Northern Cold Continent, but also developed close relations with Ancient Buddhism, forming an alliance to resist the assaults from Demon Path forces.
The last of the Overseas Four Branches each occupied an ocean in the Outer Sea, barely preserving themselves but lacking power to return to the Central Region.
As it’s said, the trend of the world is to unite after long division, to divide after long unification — such is fate, beyond human nding!
Zhao Sheng had long anticipated the split within the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family, so he wasn’t surprised at all.
What displeased him, however, was that so unworthy branches of the Zhao Family had decided to collude with Evil Demons, now becoming accomplices who inflicted harm on the Human Clan of this realm.
These wastes not only felt no sha, but instead took pride in it, brainwashing their kin with nonsense about how the rise of the demons and decline of the Dao is an irreversible trend, portraying themselves as wise for understanding the tis!
Given Zhao Sheng’s current level of insight, he no longer distinguished between the righteous and the demonic.
It wasn’t surprising at all that many mbers of the Zhao Family’s branches practiced Demon Techniques and thus beca demon path practitioners!
With a population of billions in the Zhao Family, it was entirely normal for a few Demon Cultivators or Ghost Cultivators to erge among them.
He wasn’t upset by this; he was angry that these fools were being used as puppets without realizing it.
Now, Zhao Sheng was deeply convinced that behind the Zhao Family’s fragntation were nurous forces clandestinely fueling the situation.
He could even call out the nas of several "culprits", foremost being the Supre Sensing Sect, with the Primordial Demon Sect and the Immortal Device Sect also undoubtedly being accomplices.
Why was Zhao Sheng so sure that the Supre Sensing Sect was the biggest hidden hand?
The inside story is long!
To truly start from the beginning, one must look back to the ti when the Blood God was slain.
But those are "old stories" from more than six thousand years ago, and there’s no need to dwell on them now.
The real event that intensified the conflict between the Supre Sensing Sect and the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family had to be ntioned, which was the "Salvation Voyage" from three thousand years ago.
Because many descendants of the Zhao Family had ascended to the Spirit Realm, Zhao Xuanjing was well inford about the "Salvation Voyage" plan, and thus his reports detailed it thoroughly.
In short, the "Salvation Voyage" plan was proposed due to the rapidly declining Spiritual Energy of the Tianzhu Realm, an inevitable slide into becoming a "Spiritless Desert".
It could be said that three thousand years ago, all the top Cultivation Forces in the Tianzhu Realm sensed the realm’s hopeless future.
Amidst the panic and confusion among the wise, the Supre Sensing Sect suddenly proposed a "Salvation Voyage" plan.
The core goal of this plan was singular: to move a small number of core mbers from each Great Sect to the "Spring Birth Realm" beyond Sixteen Constant Years, preserving the Primordial Qi and fire of sects in this realm.
To this end, the Supre Sensing Sect even presented a blueprint for refining a "Supre Divine Ship".
The Supre Divine Ship could traverse the Void Realm, significantly reducing the voyage ti, though its greatest downside was the imnse difficulty in refining it and its limited capacity, not exceeding three hundred people.
Even so, this Divine Ship was undoubtedly a lifesaver in the eyes of all who knew of it.
So, when the "Salvation Voyage" plan was proposed, it was imdiately embraced by all top forces, with the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family exerting imnse effort in it.
During the centuries of refining the Divine Ship, the Supre Sensing Sect was virtually the "Crownless King" of the Tianzhu Realm, and even the then-mighty Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family had to avoid its edge.
It was during these centuries that the Supre Sensing Sect silently accomplished the consolidation of its power, marked most notably by the Primordial Demon Sect and Immortal Device Sect willingly subordinating to it, while the Lingxiao Palace was battered into fragnts, with Confucian cultivators falling to the level of lower-class side paths.
For the so-called "great cause of salvation", the Heavenly Pillar Zhao Family could only watch as the Supre Sensing Sect continued to expand its influence, yet couldn’t confront it directly.
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